Our Programmes

The Spy Creatures are undertaking their most epic and exciting challenge to date, taking us deep into the world of oceans. They will explore the most magical and dynamic environments on earth, revealing the surprising and hidden lives of some of the most bizarre and extraordinary creatures on the planet.

Emmy-nominated series Serengeti returns to tell the next chapter in the story of our favourite animal characters as they navigate the highs and lows of life on the savannah. Drama and comedy abound as lovable new families join more familiar faces.

The pioneering series returns to capture the dramatic and emotional interconnected stories of iconic savannah animals. There’s humour, heartbreak and nail-biting tension as new characters move in and familiar faces continue their stories. 

Spy in the Wild is back in one of the most innovative natural history series ever presented. This time it deploys over 50 ultra-realistic animatronic Spy Creatures to go undercover across every region of the world. The 4 x 60 BBC One series captures some of the most extraordinary animal behaviour ever seen, filmed from inside the animal world.

Serengeti follows the interconnected stories of a cast of savannah animals over one year, in a bold new dramatised natural history format for BBC One. Narrated by award winning British actor John Boyega, the series captures the high drama of the area’s distinctive wildlife up close. 

This Christmas, the Spy Creatures are back, dressed up in their winter coats, to take us on a journey across the globe and reveal how living in the snow tests animals to the limit.  

In one of the most innovative natural history series ever presented, Spy in the Wild deploys over 30 ultra-realistic animatronic Spy Creatures to go undercover in the animal world. This 5 x 60’ BBC One series captures unique animal behaviour closer than ever before.

Snow Chick is the enchanting story of an emperor penguin chick’s first precarious months of life growing up in the world’s most extreme nursery.

From a marathon-mad hamster, wall-climbing cat and swimming dogs to an island ruled by rabbits, Pets – Wild at Heart, narrated by David Tennant, reveals how the pets we share our lives with are just a whisker away from their wild side.

A new generation of spy cameras enter the dolphins’ world shedding light on the hidden lives of the cleverest animals in the ocean. This time all the cameras are designed as ‘Spy Creatures’ most with cameras for eyes. They include Spy Dolphin, Spy Nautilus, Spy Turtle and a variety of other denizens of the deep. Working alongside the human dive team, they captured the most intimate views of dolphins that had ever been captured and filmed an array of new and remarkable behaviour.

With their feisty nature, penguins are bringing up their young against the most extraordinary odds. Penguins – Spy in the Huddle spends nearly a year in their close company, deploying 50 spycams to capture as never before the true character of three very different, yet equally charismatic, birds. ­This is what it’s really like to be a penguin.

Earthflight, will take you on a journey like no other – amazing sights from six continents will be revealed through the eyes of birds. This 6 part series joins the journeys of snow geese, cranes, falcons, eagles and other birds.

Using cutting-edge new filming techniques to show everything in exquisite detail, viewers have a uniquely privileged perspective flying high above the Serengeti on the backs of Vultures in Africa to hunting for bats with red-tailed hawks in North America.

Spycams sneak within a paw’s swipe of the world’s largest land predators – Polar bears. Polar Bear Spy on the Ice gets closer than ever before to these charismatic bears and reveals their astonishing intelligence and curiosity.

Thousands of killer bees invade a football pitch, millions of mice wipe out a harvest, huge fish shoals leaping into boats …animals can reach such immense numbers that they take over our lives. 

From the day their eyes open and they tumble out of the den, Tiger – Spy in the Jungle captures the day-to-day lives of four tiny tiger cubs as they grow up alongside their devoted mother in the very heart of India. The tiger is not only the world’s favourite wild animal but also one of the rarest, and as David Attenborough says, “This is the most intimate portrait of tigers ever seen.” 

Imagine being part of the Greatest Wildlife Spectacle on Earth. Imagine experiencing it as if you were one of the animals involved. The same brand of revolutionary photography that spied on Lions, Elephants and Bears, now focuses on nature’s most awe-inspiring event – the Great Wildebeest Migration.

Following on from the award-winning Animal Games comes another first, Animal Winter Games. The World’s top animal athletes compete alongside human Winter Olympic champions. In the giant slalom the gentoo penguin takes on the indestructible ‘Herminator’ himself, Hermann Maier. This perky penguin competitor is the only animal apart from humans to ski on two legs.

Lions are the stars of this groundbreaking, live action family film set against the spectacular natural stage of East Africa. It combines footage of real lions with cutting-edge animation techniques that allow the lions to talk. A dramatic and humorous script by Simon Nye brings the adventures of young lioness Suki and her brother, Linus, vividly to life. This is an emotional, high-impact drama set in the lion’s world and based on real lion behaviour. 

This film uses an army of camouflaged roving cameras to unravel the lives of one of the world’s most popular groups of animals. It is the most intimate portrayal ever of life amongst these engaging creatures. Using an array of almost magically camouflaged cameras the film take us to within paw’s reach of the most charismatic of the world’s bears. 

As the human world gathers to stage its greatest athletic contest, the animal world holds its own spectacular contest for Gold, Silver and Bronze. Hosted by the Birds, the Games take place within a stadium, set deep inside a volcanic island. Animal competitors from the Mammals, Birds, Insects, Reptiles and the Fish nations are scaled to human size so everyone is on level pegging as they compete in the 100m, high jump, long jump, shooting, weight lifting and swimming. All the tricks of multi-camera shooting, action replays and photo finishes are used to analyse each event.

The sensational Bouldercam that took us to within a whisker of lions in ‘Spy in the Den’ applies its revolutionary brand of photography to perhaps the most popular of all animals – the African Elephant. Like its predecessor, ‘Elephants’ is an action-packed ride full of natural humour. This time, the film uses an army of mobile cameras – all of them disguised as piles of elephant dung! In TV-shaking proximity, they reveal what it is really like to be part of an elephant family.

Introducing ‘Bouldercam’ – a revolutionary remote camera device that boldly goes where no camera has gone before – right into the heart of a lion pride. Looking deceptively like a mobile rock, but carrying a hidden digital camera, ‘Bouldercam’ gets up close and personal as it unravels the story of how cubs learn to become adult lions. Bouldercam was often just a whisker away as the cubs were watched, for over 3000 hours, growing up and learning to be lions. As David Attenborough says ‘This is no ordinary film about lions.’

This BBC/DISCOVERY series reveals some of the strangest behaviour in the animal world. In a series of action-packed sequences, tyres fall from a truck and disturb salamanders, which turn into living wheels. Mexican jumping beans spring to life and take over a toy store. Fulmars use projectile vomit to attack a climber. Hagfish slime their way out of a fishing boat by turning water into mucus soup.

This landmark series explores the outer limits of recent scientific discoveries and encounters sharks that can perceive human electric auras and dolphins that use ultrasound to see human embryos in the womb.

There are frogs that have mastered cryogenics and can literally freeze themselves out of life for six months, and lizards that cry blood.

In this ‘strange but true’ world, lizards walk on water, bacteria make gold and pets predict earthquakes. Science shows that most animals live in a different sensory and physical world to humans. Enter their world and weird phenomena such as raining fishes and stranded whales suddenly make sense.